Its not ny day for mailscanner

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:45 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Its not ny day for mailscanner
> 
> First off thanks to all for helping me out in the last few days on this
> list i really appreciate it...
> 
> No i have another strange problem...
> 
> MS seems to silently die, and mail keeps coming in but not being
> delivered....
> 
> Nothing in the logs other than the below...
> 
> Nov  7 07:19:38 stewy MailScanner[22057]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 08:20:29 stewy MailScanner[32272]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 09:22:31 stewy MailScanner[12405]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 10:01:06 stewy MailScanner[22796]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 11:18:19 stewy MailScanner[8095]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 11:27:49 stewy MailScanner[10785]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 11:28:28 stewy MailScanner[10982]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 12:31:27 stewy MailScanner[28341]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 12:55:14 stewy MailScanner[2339]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 13:20:20 stewy MailScanner[9208]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 14:20:12 stewy MailScanner[23010]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 14:26:12 stewy MailScanner[24665]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 15:23:26 stewy MailScanner[6529]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> Nov  7 15:35:33 stewy MailScanner[8147]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.41.3 starting...
> 
> When i run the /usr/sbin/check_mailscaner it says
> 
> stewy:/var/log# /usr/sbin/check_mailscanner
> MailScanner running with pid 8146 8147
> 
> 
> But when i watch the logs via tail -f i do not see any Mailscanner
> activity until i restart by /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart
> 
> I am using MS 4.41.3-2 with postfix on debian 3.1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Rob...
> http://www.stupidguytalk.org

To make the error a little noisier, in MailScanner.conf please set:

	Debug = no
	Debug SpamAssassin = no

Then stop and then start MailScanner from the command line. Watch the screen
output. The reason for MailScanner dying should appear.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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